Diamond in the rough
Subtitle: a novel
By: Esther Rapaport
Publisher: Israel Book Shop, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lakewood, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781600911026
Subjects: Jewish families; Fiction; Russian Jews; Terrorists; Familles juives; Romans, nouvelles; Juifs russes; Terroristes
Description: A single Jewish doctor in Toronto provides board for two Russian-Jewish children; their mother is comatose and their unknown father's fate in the hands of terrorists. The doctor's sister in Brooklyn, New York wishes to escape a sibling squabble over a necklace. The threads all connect at novel's end.